Re: Ping flooding (fwd)

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

Are there any procedures in place to track down this kind of network
abuse. In particular, is it possible that it is a stealth attack?
Before you answer, take note that this is going to appear in Bob
Metcalfe's column next week.

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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:30:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: Kevin Rosenberg <kevin () cyberport com>
Reply-To: inet-access () earth com
To: inet-access () earth com
Subject: Re: Ping flooding
Resent-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:30:53 -0600 (MDT)
Resent-From: inet-access () earth com

> Some months later we had an incident of massive amounts of forged email
> from a site called SUNSETDIRECT.COM.  For several weeks they sent forged

We are currently undergoing a ping flood attack, though our upstream
provider has filtered icmp from the host so the flood is no longer
affecting our T1 line.

The system administrator of the site that appears to be flooding us
doesn't believe his site is the source of the attack. He states that he
can't see the icmp packets, though I don't know how he is sniffing his
wire. 

My questions are these: 

Is it possible for someone to forged the source IP address of an icmp
packet?

If so, do they have to be in some routing proximity, or can they forge the
source address while they are connected from anywhere in the world?

Thanks!

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